US | Major court victory for transgender students
Gavin Grimm, who’s become a symbol of transgender activism in the US, has scored a victory in the fight for equal access to bathrooms in schools. On Tuesday, a federal court in Virginia rejected the Gloucester County School Board’s attempt to dismiss the transgender former student’s discrimination case against it. Grimm sued the school district after […]
Kenya | Former prime minister calls for unbanning of lesbian film
Kenya’s former prime minister and current opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for the acclaimed Kenyan lesbian love story Rafiki to be unbanned. Last month, Kenya’s notoriously homophobic film classification board (KFCB) blocked the film from being screened in the country ahead of its historic premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, a first for Kenya’s […]